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Explores cultures and eclectic identities of the Eastern Mediterranean and its cities (Athens, Alexandria, Beirut, Istanbul, Jerusalem) through the works of literature and film. We will focus on two central themes: first, the relationship between fiction and the history/memory of Eastern Mediterranean cities and peoples; second, the origins and sustenance of certain discourses that describe the Eastern Mediterranean with nostalgia for vanished cosmopolitanism. Writers and poets may include Abasiyanik, Adnan, Cavafy, Darwish, Durrell, Kanafani, al-Karrat, Melville, Matalon, Oz, Pamuk, Shammas, and Uzun; filmmakers may include Akin, Bitton, Boulmetis, Chahine, Egoyan, Jacir, Suleiman, and Zaim.
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Traces diverse genealogies from which to theorize violence and its relation to aesthetics. We will identify a disciplinary philology for “violence” as a signifier within visual culture, art practice and literature; historicize key transitions in varied invocations of violence in representation; study texts (photography, film, novel, installation) that create a space where violence can be discussed as both everyday and extraordinary. Some issues to be considered: representability in moments of historical crisis (war, colonialism, genocide); the efficacy of genres and artistic movements in representing violence (tragedy, surrealism, theater of cruelty); and the violence of representation (surveillance, spectatorship, voyeurism).
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Investigates historical and social constructions of sexuality and sexual difference in a range of texts from the Modern Middle East. The fundamentally literary framework of the course encompasses memoirs, fiction, poetry and film by and/or about women from the late nineteenth century to the present. Significant authors include Huda Shaarawi, Forugh Farrokhzad, Nawal El-Saadawi, Hanan al-Shaykh. The course will treat various themes and theoretical issues related to gender, sexuality, desire, patriarchy, jurisprudence and reproduction with reference to supplementary readings by such authors as Leila Ahmed, Jacque Lacan, Ali Shari`ati, Afsaneh Najmabadi, Fatema Mernissi.
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Focuses on the problem of creative inspiration for women writers and how the pursuit of aesthetic perfection, both somatic and literary as well as their interrelation, becomes a recurring motif in women's writing from various traditions. Readings will include fiction and poetry from the English, Japanese, and Arab traditions, both modern and pre-modern. This is an undergraduate seminar open to juniors and seniors. Prerequisite: coursework in literature and at least one course in gender studies/women's studies. Instructor permission required.
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Traces the historical and ideological mapping of the North-South axis and the regional mythologies informed by racism, empire and nationalism. We will examine the ways in which imagined geographical hierarchies continue to shape cultural and political struggles and the vectors of globalization. Along with readings on imperial histories, liberal and neoliberal political economies, and postcolonialism this class seeks to establish connections between resistant narratives and collective struggles in the Global South. We will discuss political philosophies of Marx, Gramsci, Arendt, Fanon, Harvey and Schwarz, as well as the works of Achebe, Hurston, Kincaid, Rushdie, Roy, Sembene, and Wright. First year students require instructor permission.
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If history is, as Charles Olson claims, a "form of attention" and we are all participants in a collective reality relative to our capacity for language use, what ethical issues come to bear on what the poet chooses to attend to--not only as subject matter but as form? Can poetic language be sufficiently responsive to the challenge of empathy? Is there an ethics of attention? Guided by philosophical texts, we shall investigate ethical possibilities in a range of world poetries. WRIT
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Interested students must register for HIST 1220 S01 (CRN 15482).
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Interested students must register for HIST 1230 S01 (CRN 25247).
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Interested students must register for CLAS 1750L S01 (CRN 25799).
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Interested students must register for ENGL 1511I S01 (CRN 15440).
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